Improvement in shoes



G.'HERON Shoes.

No. 209,682. Patented 'Nov. 5', 1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIGE.

CHRISTOPHER HERON, OF GALENA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,682, dated November5, 1878 application filed July 25, 1878.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER HERON, of Galena, in the county of J oDaviess, and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Shoes; and do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, making a part of this specification.

. The nature of my invention consists in cutting a shoe-upper in such amanner that it leaves the quarter and flap for button-holes in onepiece, and then simply cuttingtransversely through said flap andinserting a gusset, as will be hereinafter. more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe-upper embodying my invention.Fig. 2 shows the pattern for the same. Fig. 3 shows a side-lace patternembodying the same invention.

A represents the shoe-upper cut from or by a pattern in such a mannerthat the quarter and the flap B for the button-holes are in one piece.The flap is then cut across the instep at a, and a gusset, O, fittedtherein. It will be noticed that at the inner end of the slit a there isa triangular piece taken out, as shown at b, and the gusset O'is cut tofit in the same. By doingthis I am enabled to get just such a crimp orcurve as may be desired, while with the incision, Without the piecetaken out, the crimp is too acute or sharp.

The ordinary method is to stitch on a flap of a separate piece. By myimprovement it same time, causing the upper to assume the proper shapeor crimp to conform to the shape of the foot. J

I am aware that it is not new to cut the lapquarter with a portion ofthe lap in the same I piece, and then inserting a felling-piece of suchform as to complete the lap, and I do not claim such as my invention. 7

In my invention the entire lap is cut inone piece with the quarter, agap made in the lap, and a gusset inserted, as above stated, obviatinganyseam whatever along any portion of the front of the shoe, and, at thesame time,

shaping the front to the proper curve without crimping.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a button-shoe, the quarter A B, out in one piece, having the openinga 1) across the instep, and the gusset O inserted, all substantially asshown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 5th day of July, 18.78.

CHRISTOPHER HERON. n s.]

Witnesses:

JACOB Fnwon'r'r, JnssE G. ORooKs.

